Martin Heinrich: “We need senior officials at the Pentagon to help push the Joint Requirements Oversight Council and the military services…”

Our whole premise as we approached this permitting bill was: How do we create a faster process, not lower the bar on standards.

We want to build the jobs in New Mexico that you can build a family around, and that's what unions are all about. That's the way I grew up with my dad.

I would be very concerned if this were an engineered pathogen. I don't have any unique information saying that is the case. But if it were the case, that would be cause for alarm.

And some of the secret sauce in this was just the fact that we had four people who were genuinely committed to a balanced package that both sides could support.